Mental Skills and Mental Health in Sports and Exercise - MSc

Full-time programme taken on a part-time basis.

Do you want to become a leading performance professional, enhancing athletes' mental well-being and success?

With a strong focus on innovative teaching, the MSc in Mental Skills and Mental Health in Sports and Exercise goes beyond traditional sport psychology and focuses on performance restoration, resilience and mental health. It provides you with a connected, innovative, ethically driven experience.

This MSc is ideal for students looking for a career in high-performance sports settings, including roles like performance consultants, professional coaches and sport management professionals.

This programme is ranked in the Top 100 Worldwide (Sport related programmes) in the QS Global Rankings.

During this programme, you will

• Understand how to apply mental health strategies to boost sports performance. You will focus on mental skills training, assessment methods and team dynamics.
• Develop counselling and communication techniques, helping you build effective relationships with clients in sport and exercise settings.
• Explore ethical considerations in practice, understanding how to navigate real-world challenges as a responsible practitioner.
• Develop a grounding in research and application to pursue roles that don’t explicitly require a qualification in psychology (e.g. sports coaching, sports management etc.).